Gyro foil
AssigneeThe Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
InventorVincent D. DeToia
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Abstract
A flying vehicle in the form of a fixed structure fitted with propulsion engines and in the form of a fixed wing and tail section mounted to a pair of counter-rotatable discs, one below and one above the fixed structure, with the discs when rotating providing both aerodynamic lift and gyroscopic stability.
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Claims1
An air vehicle formed of a fixed structure to which one of a pair of solid rotatable convex discs is rotatably mounted externally above, and the other of a pair of said discs rotatably mounted externally below said fixed structure about a common vertical axis for providing stability and lift to said structure, together with means to rotate each disc with respect to the said structure in counter-rotating directions relative to each other, in which
- the fixed structure is fitted with wings and a tail section that extend beyond the discs, and in which
- each disc is formed with a through concentric opening joining a through concentric opening in the fixed structure through said vertical axis, with the internal walls of said openings in the discs and fixed structure fitted with turbine blades to generate lift when the discs are rotated, and with
- the external surface of each disc shaped to provide aerodynamic lift characteristics when rotated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.